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title: "groovy · GenZ Decoded"
description: "groovy: Excellent, fashionable, or enjoyable; something that feels aligned and good. Example: \"That new record is so groovy, I could listen all day.\""
url: "https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/groovy/"
lang: "en"
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---

# groovy

Boomer[#cool](https://genzdecoded.com/slang-for/approval/)

**Meaning.** Excellent, fashionable, or enjoyable; something that feels aligned and good.

See it in a sentence

That new record is so groovy, I could listen all day.

## How each generation says it

The closest equivalent for this idea in every generation.

- Gen Z

    [bomb](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/bomb/),[buttah](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/buttah/)

- Gen Alpha

    No word for this one yet.

- Millennial

    [awesome](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/awesome/)

- Gen X

    [all that and a bag of chips](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/all-that-and-a-bag-of-chips/),[blazing](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/blazing/)

- Boomer · this one

    groovy,[far out](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/far-out/)

- Plain English

    excellent, fashionable, or enjoyable

## Read more on this idea

- [How every generation says that's excellent](https://genzdecoded.com/how-to-say/thats-excellent/)

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## Related slang

- [goat](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/goat/): Greatest of all time.
- [goated](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/goated/): Good enough to count among the best ever; strong praise for a person, song, meal or move.
- [gucci](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/gucci/): Good, fine, or all right.
- [heavy](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/heavy/): Deeply serious, profound, or emotionally intense.

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